The Beinart Notebook

By Peter BeinartSociety & Culture News News Commentary

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September 11 9/11, Twenty-Five Years On
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On the 25th anniversary of September 11, we discuss the enduring legacy of that day. Our guests are Spencer Ackerman, author of Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump and the newsletter, Forever Wars, and Iyad El-Baghdadi, co-author of The Middle East Crisis Factory and Editor-in-Chief of Kulna. I can’t think of two better people to explain how 9/11 still haunts Americans, the Middle East and the entire world.
12 min
September 09 Inside Biden’s Gaza Policy
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Our guest is Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, the public relations liaison for Chabad Headquarters, as well as the founder of the Jewish Future Alliance and Director of Operation Survival.
We discuss:
The biblical mandate for human equality
How West Bank settlements makes a two-state solution less likely
Why did Chabad host Itamar Ben-Gvir?
9 min
September 07 Explanation Is Not Justification

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8 min
September 06 Chris Rabb on Trying to be Progressive in a Democratic Party that Isn’t
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Our guest is State Representative Chris Rabb, who recently won the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s third congressional district, part of a wave of recent victories by members of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Topics include:
Whether multi-racial democracy will survive
How Hillary could have won
What it’s like to have to raise money
Josh Shapiro, John Fetterman, and Democratic infighting
Why so many black politicians aren’t on the side of equality when it comes to Israel-Palestine
10 min
September 02 Rabbi Yaacov Behrman and I Discuss Judaism, Zionism and Chabad
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Our guest is Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, the public relations liaison for Chabad Headquarters, as well as the founder of the Jewish Future Alliance and Director of Operation Survival.
We discuss:
The biblical mandate for human equality
How West Bank settlements makes a two-state solution less likely
Why did Chabad host Itamar Ben-Gvir?
10 min
August 31 The Heckling of Brad Lander

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10 min
August 30 The Rise of Islamophobia in America
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Our guest is Rozina Ali, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the new book, just released this week, Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America.
We discuss:
Why anti-Muslim bigotry has become so prominent in America
The various ways American Muslims navigate Islamophobia
The different Islamophobic strategies employed against Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, and their different responses
Tensions between black and Muslim communities
The difficulty of building coalitions between Muslims and Jews, given powerful Jewish organizations’ support of Israel
13 min
August 24 The Full Cost of AIPAC’s Influence

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7 min
August 21 Two Jews Debate Abdul El-Sayed
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Our guest is Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the Director of Community Relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor and the Rabbi of Kehillat Etz Chaim in Oak Park, Michigan.
I’ve known Rabbi Lopatin for a long time. He’s not only a great teacher of Torah, he’s also a mensch. Which makes his willingness to support Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed even more distressing to me. Nonetheless, we had a respectful conversation. I’m grateful to him for having it.
We discuss:
El-Sayed’s condemnation of AIPAC
El-Sayed’s views about Israel
The allegation that El-Sayed is singling Israel out
Mike Rogers’ refusal to say that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election
11 min
August 17 Settler Violence is State Violence

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8 min